Agricultural Robotics Portal

There is increasing awareness and development of agricultural robots
around the world. In these pages I will try to bring together the links
to projects that I am aware of. If you know of any links not included
here, please let me know!

The Autonomous
Platform and Information system. Originally built by 2 MSc Students
at the Danish Technical University (Mobile
Robot for Weeding). Their thesis can be found
here.
Further work was carried out on the API design by 3 MSc students at
Aalborg
university.Name: API. Champion:?
Type: 4WD / 4WS portal
Power: Battery + 4x?W wheel motors
Related projects: See the
Agrobotics project and the
ACROSS project.
Notes: Two versions were made

The SlugBot
was developed to investigate the issues of energetic autonomy, by
harvesting slugs and putting them into a digester to power the robot!Name: SlugBot. Champion: Ian Kelly
Type: 4WD skid steer
Power: (2 slugs per hour? ;)
Notes: See also EcoBots

The Modulaire tractor was designed as a remote
controlled tractor in the 1990s. Nine were built in Finland and one was
modified for GPS control. Here is a
movie. (DivX, 4MB)
Name: Modulaire. Champion:?
Type: tracks
Power: 40hp
Notes: Front and rear linkages